Improved broom-head



JOHN HARRIS, OF MARQUETTE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVED BROOM-HEAD.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,011, dated October 23, 1866.

To all whom it may-concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN HARRIS, of Marquette, in the county of Green Lake and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Broom-Heads and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure l is a side view of a broom-head in red lines, showing in black lines my improvement attached. Fig. 2 is an under-side view of my improvement detached from the broomhead. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view taken through the line 00 00, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

My invention has for its object to improve the construction of my broom-head, patented May 1, 1866, and numbered 54,338; and it consists of the combination of the arms, serrated bars, and pins with'each other, when said parts are constructed and combined in the manner hereinafter more fully described.

C are the serrated bars, which pass around the broom at aboutthe point where the broom is usually sewed, and which said bars are bent or curved in the form which it is desired the broom should have. The ends of the bars G are perforated for the passage of the pins B, and they are also made thinner, so that when overlapped and passed over said pins the overlapped parts may be no thicker than the other-parts of the said bars, as shown in Fig. 1. These bars 6 must be placed upon the pins B in such a. way that the body of the lower bar may be on the side of the broomhead opposite to that upon which the notches are formed upon the side of the said pins B, as before described, so that the outside pressure of the broom-corn or other material of which the broom or brush is made may force the edge of the said bar into the said notches and securely hold the various parts together.

Upon the inner sides of the bars 0 are formed teeth, which penetrate the corn, holding it securely in its proper position and preventing it from being drawn out.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination of the arms A, pins B, and serrated bars 0, when said arms, pins, and

bars are constructed and combined substantially in the manner herein described, and for the purpose set forth.

' JOHN HARRIS.

, Witnesses F. B. HAWES, S. E. HAWES. 

